Mario Biondi Knihy

Vo Viedni devätnásteho storočia sa odohráva dráma lásky, osudu a vôle na pozadí intelektuálnych prúdov, ktoré budú definovať celú éru. Josef Breuer, jeden zo zakladateľov psychoanalýzy, je na vrchole svojej kariéry. Jedného z najväčších európskych filozofov Friedricha Nietzscheho trápia samovražedné myšlienky, nenachádza liek na bolesti hlavy a ďalšie problémy, ktoré ho sužujú. Keď Breuer vyhovie prosbe Lou Salomé liečiť Nietzscheho svojou experimentálnou metódou založenou na rozhovore, ešte netuší, že aj on nájde v týchto stretnutiach útechu. Až vďaka tomu, že musí čeliť vlastným vnútorným démonom, dokáže talentovaný psychiater pomôcť svojmu pacientovi. V románe Keď Nietzsche plakal spája Yalom fakty a fikciu, atmosféru a napätie, aby odkryl nezabudnuteľný príbeh o sile myšlienok a priateľstva.

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.

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In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

The Longman Fiction series consists of simplified works of fiction and covers a wide range of language levels from lower intermediate to advanced. Each book contains an introduction with background information on both the story and original author. This text is lower intermediate level.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." —Los Angeles Times San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

Najdlhší Hemingwayov román Komu zvonia do hrobu (1940) je kronikou troch dní života amerického lektora španielčiny Roberta Jordana. Ten prichádza v období občianskej vojny do Španielska ako dobrovoľník bojovať po boku republikánov proti Francovmu nacionalistickému režimu. Neďaleko Segovie sa pripojí k partizánskej jednotke, ktorá mu pomáha vyhodiť do vzduchu most, čo má zabrániť postupu nepriateľských jednotiek. Robert splní svoju úlohu, hoci sa presvedčí o jej nezmyselnosti. Chápe však nevyhnutnosť disciplíny, a preto sa podriadi vyššiemu cieľu. Medzi partizánmi spozná mladú sirotu Mariu. Romantický vzťah, ktorý medzi ňou a Robertom vznikne, bol jednou z príčin veľkého čitateľského úspechu tohto Hemingwayovho románu a zároveň sa stal aj hlavným motívom rovnomenného filmu, ktorý v roku 1943 nakrútil americký režisér Sam Wood s Garym Cooprom a Ingrid Bergmanovou v hlavných úlohách.

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

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